Part 2 picks up right where we left off on Part 1, by tackling the post-Moving Pictures journey of our Canuck music heroes. They’ve just experienced their greatest commercial success (artistic as well, at least according to CFX) to date and ready to fire the up the synths for some emotion transmission on 1982’s Signals. How do the next 11 albums over 30 years of the band’s studio recording history go down? Are they cool with their rapidly growing, hard-won, post-Moving Pictures fan base? Or will they be cast out? We cover it all, have major disagreements agreements along the way, and learn:

• How not to make music videos
• What famous drummer (ok, look-alike) starred in the Subdivisions video
• How disco might have been Rush’s secret weapon
• What happens when Neil Peart and Jeff go head-to-head in an lyric writing contest
• How everyone is entitled to Geddy’s opinion
• Why Big Money has no soul
• And, finally, how exactly, abnormal shapes and forms contribute to life in two dimensions becoming a mass production scheme

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ATTENTION PLANETS OF THE SOLAR FEDERATION! WE HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL! WE HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL! That's right, eh! This is the big one, episode 50, and so, it's time to grab a Molson Golden, don that kimono, and tuck into some poutine, because CFX are covering one of the all time greats, Canadian rock gods, RUSH. This is an episode so huge and magnificent, that we couldn't do it in one go, but had to split it in two. That's right, for a total of 5+ hours, we dive into the history, zeitgeist and take on the whole discography of these virtuosic prog wizards from the Great White North. In part 1, we chart the rise of the band, from their humble beginnings as heavy riff rockers to hash oil imbibing prog rockers to multi-platinum FM radio rulers. RUSH are great, we all know that, but how well do they stack up really? In the first part, we cover everything from the early days of the band with drummer John Rutsey before Neil "The Professor" Peart would blow everyone away with his Objectivist philosophical beliefs and superhuman drumming all the way to the band's megablockbuster Moving Pictures album (in part 2, we'll cover the rest). We decide if the band really does mold a new reality or if their music is just a silly whim (that doesn't fit the plan). And, along the way, as you've come to expect, we also learn...

• What rush song nerds listen to to get "in the mood"
• How to pronounce Alex's real last name (actually, we could never figure that out)
• What band wouldn't allow Rush to have a soundcheck and, let's face it, were total hoseheads
• What cartoon character did critics say Geddy Lee sang like
• What was the most difficult album to record? The easiest? And the most hash-influenced?
• How your esteemed hosts rank the albums of this era
• And, finally, will we be dining on honeydew or will this episode end in Tears…

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Teen archetypes! Melodramatic method-inspired soliloquies! Stepford Wives teen makeovers! Flaring nostrils! Hairy butt loving sportos! Quarterflash sound-alikes! And, who could forget… Neo-Nazi Zoom DWEEBIES?! If you’re wondering what we’re talking about, you’ve obviously never seen the 1985 classic John Hughes film, The Breakfast Club! We were bound to get to this one sooner or later and this week we do, diving into the history and zeitgeist of this film and deciding whether it is indeed one of the great and enduring teen-centered films ever made or if we should just ignore the advice of Simple Minds and just FORGET ABOUT IT. We also have some fun talking about which of the teen archetypes we most resembled (it’s not hard to guess… we’re looking at you, Brian Johnson) and go through a meticulous walk-through of just about every detail and event of the film, and, as you’ve come to expect, we also learn…

• What the Brat Pack was and what a Rat Pack version of this film might be like
• Who originally was cast as rebel John Bender and what physical characteristic led to Judd Nelson getting the part
• Which of your CFX hosts also took shop and how he messed up his project worse than Brian
• About Jeff’s foreign film movie career starring alongside of Molly Ringwald and Patrick Dempsey
• Which character was probably most interested in what, besides Bender’s weed, was in Johnson’s underwear
• How to not fake being stoned
• What happens when you mess with the bull…

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